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I've never tried installing wads before yet. But now I'm thinking about trying it, because there are some nice Wiiware games out there.
How safe exactly is it (using wadmanager 1.1) ? Is the installation process safe and stable, or are there still risks of bricking?

Iv installed alot of wads and the worst thats happend is a failed install or the channel didnt work (diff region) . Aslong as the WADs your installing are safe (dont have bad banners etc) then im sure the risk is minimal.

Same goes for me. I've installed/uninstalled 15+ WADs with nos problem. Like darkhawk said, the worst that can happen is a failed install (I had this once but it didn't install it. It just told me an error and then it rebooted safely.) or the channel didn't work.

Are you kidding? This thing is completely idiot proof. Just make sure you have room on your Wii. Even if you forget your Wii will yell at you for room, I just ignore it for the moment then uninstall the wad, THEN make extra Room. Oh yeah if the banner is bad on the wad the Wii freezes then you just reboot.

Oh yeah if the banner is bad on the wad the Wii freezes then you just reboot.

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Heard of banner-brick?

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I thought banner-brick meant that the Wii would not load past the health screen when you first load up the Wii.

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no its worse then that, you need to load an autoboot disk of the wadmanager and uninstall the wad (if you are on 3.2 or below) or autoboot of zelda and uninstall with the wad manager thru the TP hack... of course if you are on 3.3 and havent got the TP hack installed you are SOL until betwiin comes out and that will still be a lot of work

As long as you install scene released WADs, and not one that some random jerk sent you, you'll be fine... I've installed roughly 30 WADs (as well as uninstalling them) and never had a problem!

Just make sure your downloading them from a good torrent site, or website that you trust.

If you "banner brick" your Wii, you'll have to buy a mod chip to fix it. You have to modify a Zelda ISO to autoboot so it bypasses the menu, pray you still have the TP hack save installed, and run a wad uninstaller.

Fill up the first page on the system menu with channels that are fine, so that way if you install a channel, it will be on the second page, and if its a banner brick channel just reboot the wii, go on the first page and remove that wad. EZ